The decline of American journalism has some things in common with the decline of the legal profession. Consider this piece of “journalism,” published yesterday in Forbes, purportedly one of the nation’s leading financial magazines:
Month: April 2012
In case you want to know who the ALEC staffers are and, say, want to follow their Twitter feeds/harass them for being evil, this guide is for you.
Bobo. …Jamelle has more. The basic con Brooks is running for the Ryan budget is that because Ryan refuses to specify the specific cuts that would flow from his plan for upper class tax cuts
In attempting to rebut Koppleman’s point that the argument against the ACA has striking parallels with Hammer v. Dagenhart, amidst a bunch of other howlers Althouse inadvertently reaffirms his point: But hospitals must treat emergency patients. It really is a problem that some people use this service and fail to pay their bills. But even […]
Hard to see the problem here….. Florida leads the pack in passing bills written by the gun lobby that block any sensible attempt to control the purchase and use of firearms. The dangerous folly
Sharon Friedman makes a very good point about the language of environmentalism, particularly the use of the term “virgin forests.” Calling anything involving forests “virgin” m
Balkin: One hopes that, in light of these remarks, a great weight has now been lifted from Judge Smith’s shoulders. Perhaps now, having received assurances from the President of the United States that he actually possesses the powers of judicial review, Judge Smith can at last breathe a well-deserved sigh of relief. Armed with a […]
Two days ago, a three-judge Fifth Circuit panel ordered “President” Obama’s Department of Justus to produce a letter of at least three single-spaced pages, explaining the dusky usurp
Yesterday I talked Australia and the “Asian Pivot” with Alyona:
Andrew Koppelman is correct that Hammer v. Dagenhart would be the most obvious precedent for a Supreme Court decision striking down the ACA: Both then and now, challengers to the statutes had to propose that the Supreme Court invent new constitutional rules in order to strike them down. At the time it considered the issue in […]
It’s a crucial organizing principle of the modern Republican Party.
UMWA President Cecil Roberts embarrassed himself and his union on a West Virginia radio station: “The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington,” Cecil Rob